Pre-Owned The Boy on Cinnamon Street (Hardcover) by Phoebe Stone

from WendyPitts

This a great book to work with readers on the concept of an unreliable narrator. An enjoyable YA novel that has likable characters and at the same time addressing some hard subjects like suicide.

from agrudzien

I expected a light hearted tween crush book, but it was a whole lot deeper than that. The story leaves you wondering what happened to set Louise off until almost the end, and while I felt like I had no idea what was going on at the beginning of the book, it needed to come out when the character w...

from zeebreez

Stone, Sharon. The Boy on Cinnamon Street. Arthur A Levine Books, 2012. This is a story about a 13 year old girl named Thumb who says she looks like a 4th grader. She is struggling with being short and is in denial of the loss of her mother to suicide. She gets a note from a secret admirer and th...

from nbmars

After I read Romeo Blue by Phoebe Stone, I wanted to read more of this author's work. Although appropriate for middle graders, the two books that I have read so far are by no means unappealing for adults. Louisa Terrace is 13, lives with her grandparents, and is going to a new school this year. A...

from ilikethesebooks

There are two very important parts that make up this middle grade novel: a girl trying to discover who her secret admirer is, and a girl who is trying to get over the death of her mother. These two parts make up the same main character, so for each funny and sweet moment there is an equally heart...